Both Uses of
attenuate
in
Arrowsmith
- A few years later, living on the tiny inheritance from his father, a petty banker, and quite carelessly and cheerfully exhausting it, he was analyzing critically the ptomain theory of disease, and investigating the mechanism of the attenuation of virulence of microorganisms.†
Chpt 12
- With no excuse and less encouragement he isolated blackleg organisms from sick cattle and prepared an attenuated vaccine of his own.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(attenuate) reduce in strength, amount, or size